Helping software testers remain relevant and employable

Month: March 2012

One of the topics that always pops up in conversation with Testers is whether or not we need to know how to code. I think a lot of this depends on your context and your career goals and aims, but really it pays to at least understand how the code is hanging together and to […]

I’m a big fan of gathering metrics about my own activities. It allows me to look at trends and patterns about my own behavior either for self-improvement, or to simply understand more about the things I may have often taken for granted. I’ve also found tracking my Testing activities and some of the metrics that […]

A while ago I remember Phil Kirkham mentioning that he’d found a bug that “fell” outside of the Test Cases he’d been given and someone was arguing that it wasn’t a bug. I found it incredibly interesting that someone would dismiss a serious bug because it was not found as part of a test case. […]

Welcome

Howdy and welcome to The Social Tester website. My name is Rob Lambert and I’ve been blogging on this site for many years.

Although I no longer post to this site you can follow my new adventures helping managers in tech companies build amazing teams over on Cultivated Management

I’m keeping this site here as it’s still getting traffic. Which is nice.